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Washington news with a Texas accentFri, 13 Feb 2015 22:20:13 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2NAFTA at 20: Good for everybody? Or bad for Texas and America?http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/12/nafta-at-20-good-for-everybody-or-bad-for-texas-and-america/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/12/nafta-at-20-good-for-everybody-or-bad-for-texas-and-america/#commentsMon, 10 Dec 2012 22:06:19 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=50778http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/12/nafta-at-20-good-for-everybody-or-bad-for-texas-and-america/feed/0Texas is a big winner in the Senate’s bipartisan highway billhttp://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/03/texas-is-a-big-winner-in-the-senates-bipartisan-highway-bill/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/03/texas-is-a-big-winner-in-the-senates-bipartisan-highway-bill/#commentsFri, 16 Mar 2012 15:03:51 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=32069While the House of Representatives was away from Washington, the Senate this week approved a two-year, $109 billion surface transportation bill. The bipartisan proposal was strongly pushed by Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who called the measure “a significant win for Texas.” ]]>http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/03/texas-is-a-big-winner-in-the-senates-bipartisan-highway-bill/feed/0Looking back at Ross Perot’s presidential campaign, 20 years after he announced candidacyhttp://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/02/looking-back-at-ross-perots-presidential-campaign-20-years-after-he-announced-candidacy/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/02/looking-back-at-ross-perots-presidential-campaign-20-years-after-he-announced-candidacy/#commentsMon, 20 Feb 2012 19:48:49 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=29907His focus on fiscal responsibility made the presidential debates more substantive, and resulted in President Clinton making fiscal responsibility a top priority for his administration. The result was that great progress was made between 1993 and 2000 in connection with fiscal responsibility and other key challenges facing America. In the years since, all that progress has been lost.]]>http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/02/looking-back-at-ross-perots-presidential-campaign-20-years-after-he-announced-candidacy/feed/1Two Mexican trucking companies may soon get OK from feds to operate in U.S.http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/09/two-mexican-trucking-companies-may-soon-get-ok-from-feds-to-operate-in-u-s/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/09/two-mexican-trucking-companies-may-soon-get-ok-from-feds-to-operate-in-u-s/#commentsFri, 02 Sep 2011 15:21:22 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=20319Two Mexican trucking companies are on track to receive U.S. operating authority by the end of the month. The Department of Transportation on Thursday notified the Free Trade Alliance San Antonio that seven Mexican long-haul carriers have applied to make U.S. deliveries under a new cross-border trucking program, and two are close to approval.]]>http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/09/two-mexican-trucking-companies-may-soon-get-ok-from-feds-to-operate-in-u-s/feed/2Perry Watch: It’s official — Rick Perry is the presidential candidate of the ‘Bilderberg’http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/05/perry-watch-its-official-rick-perry-is-the-presidential-candidate-of-the-bilderberg/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/05/perry-watch-its-official-rick-perry-is-the-presidential-candidate-of-the-bilderberg/#commentsSat, 28 May 2011 08:00:34 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=10986Rick Perry can now be officially taken seriously as a presidential candidate. The official blog monitoring the alleged "Bilderberg Conspiracy" to destroy American sovereignty and create a one world government has decided that our very own Texas governor is the anointed candidate of those evil globalists.
Indeed, mark your calendars for June 9. That's the beginning of the secret Swiss confab that will officially tab Perry to be Bilderberg's secret choice to lead the USofA, AmericanFreePress.net declares.]]>http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/05/perry-watch-its-official-rick-perry-is-the-presidential-candidate-of-the-bilderberg/feed/1Texas lawmakers working to connect pieces of NAFTA superhighway in Texashttp://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/05/texas-lawmakers-working-to-connect-pieces-of-nafta-superhighway-in-texas/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/05/texas-lawmakers-working-to-connect-pieces-of-nafta-superhighway-in-texas/#commentsMon, 23 May 2011 16:33:29 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=10475Piecing together the so-called NAFTA superhighway stretching 1,800 miles from Mexico to Canada will get a boost if the House adopts legislation submitted by Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi.
That’s the highway that’s designed to one day stretch from Mexico across the United States to Canada to help the three economies collaborate more closely on trade and commerce. If enacted, the bill would facilitate interstate signage on the multi-state Interstate-69 corridor stretching from Port Huron, Michigan to the US-Mexico border in Texas, Farenthold said.]]>http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/05/texas-lawmakers-working-to-connect-pieces-of-nafta-superhighway-in-texas/feed/0Final Mexican trucking deal may be ‘days’ away, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk sayshttp://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/03/final-mexican-trucking-deal-may-be-days-away-u-s-trade-representative-ron-kirk-says/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/03/final-mexican-trucking-deal-may-be-days-away-u-s-trade-representative-ron-kirk-says/#commentsThu, 10 Mar 2011 23:46:59 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/03/final-mexican-trucking-deal-may-be-days-away-u-s-trade-representative-ron-kirk-says/http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/03/final-mexican-trucking-deal-may-be-days-away-u-s-trade-representative-ron-kirk-says/feed/0Rep. Henry Cuellar hails US-Mexico deal on truckshttp://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/03/rep-henry-cuellar-hails-us-mexico-deal-on-trucks/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/03/rep-henry-cuellar-hails-us-mexico-deal-on-trucks/#commentsFri, 04 Mar 2011 01:00:36 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/03/rep-henry-cuellar-hails-us-mexico-deal-on-trucks/http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/03/rep-henry-cuellar-hails-us-mexico-deal-on-trucks/feed/0Analysis: Mexican truckers would be a boon to Texas business, but unions say it will cost jobshttp://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/01/analysis-mexican-truckers-would-be-a-boon-to-texas-business-but-unions-say-it-will-cost-jobs/
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/01/analysis-mexican-truckers-would-be-a-boon-to-texas-business-but-unions-say-it-will-cost-jobs/#commentsMon, 24 Jan 2011 14:29:06 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/01/analysis-mexican-truckers-would-be-a-boon-to-texas-business-but-unions-say-it-will-cost-jobs/http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/01/analysis-mexican-truckers-would-be-a-boon-to-texas-business-but-unions-say-it-will-cost-jobs/feed/0